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Partnership Equips Lombardi Cancer Center to Weather Health System Changes

By Emma Iannini April 16, 2013

As part of its effort to expand collaborative research opportunities, the Georgetown University Medical Center’s Lombardi Cancer Center announced a joint partnership with the John Theurer Cancer Center...

Fighting Cancer, Lap by Lap

By Ivan Robinson April 12, 2013

More than 1,400 students will walk to honor cancer survivors and raise funds for cancer research at Georgetown’s eighth Relay for Life tonight. Georgetown’s Relay has raised more than $2 million...

WEIS: Legacy Lives Strong Despite Controversy

By David Weis February 7, 2013

For the past few weeks, Lance Armstrong has been mercilessly bashed upon the unforgiving rocks of the American media for his use of performance-enhancing drugs. He has been the subject of betrayal from...

Medical Center Identifies New Tumor Treatment

By Penny Hung October 2, 2012

Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have identified a therapy for a rare type of lung tumor using a new cell technology that allows scientists to test different treatments on individual patients’...

The Fight for Life: Cancer Survivor Livens Pre-Med Community

By Katrina Yeh September 27, 2012

During her junior year of high school, Lauren Antognoli was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After going through a rigorous six-month treatment, she emerged a survivor — the cancer is officially...

Celebrate, Remember and Fight like a Hoya

By Elaine Li and Elaine Li April 19, 2012

Wanna spend the night with me? Well, tomorrow’s your lucky night. As most of you have probably noticed (you can’t really miss the bright purple signs, white and blue balloons, multi-colored STOP...

Student Wins Award for Cancer Research

By Margaret Viator March 16, 2012

David Solomon (MED ’12) gained national recognition for his research on the genetics of cancer last Friday when he won the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. The award, which is sponsored...

Walk This Way: Relay for Life Co-Chairs Gear Up for This Year’s Event

By Victoria Ngare January 26, 2012

Since the inaugural Relay for Life event in 2006, students from Georgetown has managed to raise $1.4 million for the American Cancer Society. Relay for Life has become an integral part of the Georgetown...

Study: Cancer Prevention May Begin at the Vegetable Stand

By Heather Flynn February 1, 2011

Mothers have a new reason to make their children eat their greens, and it is not just "because I told you so." A recent article published by Georgetown researchers in The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry...

GUMC Finds CT Scan May Lower Cancer Fatalities

By Johanna Caldwell November 11, 2010

A study conducted in part at the Medical Center's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center found that screening former and current smokers with a CT scan can reduce lung cancer deaths by 20 percent, according...

Cancer Center Breakthrough May Alter Treatment

By Kelly Church October 25, 2010

Georgetown researchers at Lombardi Cancer Center may have discovered a cancer-killing treatment that implements a cold virus in the destruction of cancer cells. The virus, known as reovirus, is known...

Cupcakes For Cancer

By Fatima Muneer October 5, 2010

Pink lahhafs and tables piled with cookies, cakes iced pink and cupcakes rivaling D.C.'s Georgetown Cupcakes filled the SFS-Qatar campus this week in a fundraising event for breast cancer. Organized...

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